Colton Haynes shocked Teen Wolf fans last month when he confirmed that he would not be returning for the third season of the MTV scripted series. But members of the cast were dumbfounded by the sudden news, too.

“We found out when everyone else did, when it hit -- I think there was a tweet or something,” Crystal Reed told reporters at MTV’s "Restore the Shore" fundraiser in NYC last Thursday night. “I didn’t think that it was actually gonna happen … it was shocking for me.”

While the exact reason for Haynes' departure was not officially confirmed, rumors implied that contract negotiations with the network had broken down despite a "lucrative offer" from MTV -- something that the actor had also reportedly dealt with prior to season two.

“There was talk about him doing this after the first season so we were kind of used to it, but then it actually happened,” said Tyler Posey. “It definitely sucks, it’s definitely weird. It’s gonna be weird to film it without him, but we have a good group of people on our show and we’ll survive.”

Though Haynes won’t be playing Jackson Whitmore when filming begins on Dec. 3, his former co-stars reassure fans that their parting is only professional.

“I feel like it won’t even feel like he’s gone -- he’ll probably be still hanging out with us on set and still come to our parties when the show’s on,” Dylan O’Brien told reporters. “We’re still really good friends with him and we’re still gonna hang out with him … we wish him good luck, and we’re still gonna see him always.”

Double the episode count of its previous seasons, season three of Teen Wolf will kick off with a time lapse in the storyline of four months, complete with a concise explanation for Jackson's leave in the first episode, noted Reed. But don't expect executive producer Jeff Davis to make Jackson's absence permanent, as sources previously told E! News that "Colton could come back still."

Following news of Haynes' exit from the show, early reports stated that the actor was up for a role in a network pilot. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter, however, that Haynes was actually in the process of booking a movie role.

“He’s always wanted to do network television dramas,” said O’Brien of Haynes' potential endeavors. “He wants to win Emmys and I think he can. He will.”

Source: My TVAs soon as Ru got her comic book last year I knew there would be a Drag Race comic book challenge. Not even going to lie as excited as I was for All-Stars I've been pretty underwhelmed by it. I think the teams ruined it for me. I'm more pumped for season five than I am for the All-Stars finale. Also, I pretty much hate whoever introduced The Hunger Games to Chad at this point. :-X That being said, I do still love Untucked so lets sit back and enjoy. :D

Reality TV stars the Kardashians "took" North Miami as the city bestowed them with the "Keys to the City" Monday afternoon.

After being bumped from Miami Beach's exclusive DiLido Island at the protest of residents, the sisters rented out a bayfront North Miami mansion to shoot E!'s latest Kardashian show, "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami."

The move and potential production revenues was enough to prompt the city to honor the reality clan.

A tightly-packed crowd of citizens and media flanked the North Miami council hall, where the sisters (minus Khloe, busy with hosting duties on FOX's "The X-Factor" in L.A.) strolled in at 12:30 p.m. -- over an hour later than scheduled.

But the sisters looked none worse for the wear, with Kim thanking the city in a tweet before her arrival

Celebrity gawkers packed the room as a surreal scene unfolded: The North Miami Police Honor Guard marched in the flags and violinists Sons of Mystro serenaded the sisters:

Minutes later, North Miami's troubled Mayor Andre Pierre arrived at the podium with his trademark bow tie to introduce the celebutantes.

"What can you say about the Kardashians that we don't already know?" remarked the Mayor. "Three of the hardest working people in the business: Khloe, Kim, and Kourtney... we are honored by your presence."

Jennifer Hudson starred in the first extended sneak peek at the deliciously dramatic second season of Smash released during Monday’s The Voice.

Showing flashes of upcoming scenes with most of the new cast, the preview saw Karen getting a little loving from Jeremy Jordan’s character, Jennifer Hudson walking out to paparazzi telling Karen “this will be you in 6 months” and much more. Watch the video below!

The sophomore season of the NBC musical drama will see several new additions, including new showrunner Josh Safran (Gossip Girl). Guest starring this season will be Liza Minnelli, Hairspray‘s Nikki Blonksy, Rent‘s Jesse L. Martin and Daphne Rubin-Vega as well as Will and Grace‘s Sean Hayes. Bernadette Peters will also return as Ivy’s mother.

Newsies‘ Jeremy Jordan, The Addams Family‘s Krysta Rodriguez and Andy Mientus, from the touring company of Spring Awakening, will be joining the cast as regulars, while Will Chase (Michael Swift), Raza Jaffrey (Dev), Brian d’Arcy James (Frank) and Jaime Cepero (Ellis) won’t be returning in the same capacity.

Smash returns with a two-hour episode Feb. 5 at 10 p.m. ET on NBC. It will move to Tuesday nights instead of Mondays.

Our list of the best and worst TV advertisers is meant to serve as a guide to holiday shoppers who support family-friendly advertisers, knowing the impact those companies have on today’s TV programming and, by extension, on our entertainment media culture,” said PTC president Tim Winter.

Just in time for the official start to holiday season, the Parents Television Council® released its annual list of the “Top Ten Best and Worst Advertisers” for the 2011-2012 television season.

Good & Bad TV Shows of the last week:

Companies were ranked based on the content in the television shows they chose to underwrite with their advertising dollars. “Best” companies primarily sponsored programs with positive, family-friendly themes while advertisers that earned the “worst” label commonly appeared on shows that included harsh language, violence and sexual content.

“This week marks the official start of the holiday shopping season and businesses will quickly find out whether consumers support their brands.

“If you’re in the market for an automobile this year and want to show support for family-friendly companies, both Ford and Nissan landed on our ‘best’ list, sponsoring programs like, ‘Who Do You Think You Are,’ and ‘Minute To Win It,’ while Toyota appeared on our ‘worst’ list for programs like, ‘Grimm,’ ‘Awake,’ and ‘Smash.’

“If consumers are considering where to shop, Wal-Mart and CVS landed on our best list, but Target secured a spot on the ‘worst’ list. Other friendly brands include Procter & Gamble (Ivory and Oil of Olay soap) and General Mills (Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Cheerios, Haagen-Dazs, and Hamburger Helper).

“For fast food chains, this year Wendy’s exhibited more corporate responsibility than McDonald’s, which has shown an unfortunate slide from the family-friendly ranks. When reaching for a soda, we found Coca-Cola supported far more family-friendly programming than PepsiCo.

“Other companies like Brinker international – owner of the Chili’s restaurant chain – which appeared on our ‘worst’ advertisers list as recently as 2009, turned a positive corner this year by committing to wholesome, family-friendly content. Brinker’s improvement in its advertising policy corresponds with solid financial results, corroborating recent research by retail behemoth Wal-Mart that the performance of advertising dollars is increased by 18% when associated with positive programming as opposed to negative programming.

“As they do every holiday season, businesses depend on every dollar and this is a chance for consumers to vote with their wallets and support brands in line with their own values. PTC encourages every shopper to reward those companies who have consistently supported positive, family-friendly content throughout the year,” Winter concluded.

Top Ten Best and Worst Advertisers

The PTC’s list of the “Top Ten Best and Worst Advertisers” is based on each company’s prime time broadcast television ad buys during the 2011-2012 television season. Using PTC’s trademarked Traffic Light ratings system, each company was assigned a point value based on the number of green, yellow and red light shows it sponsored.

Special weight was assigned to advertisers that demonstrated a corporate commitment to sponsor family-friendly programming.

Last night on Twitter, Frank Ocean surprised his 1.8 million followers by posting two new pictures from a new photography session, shot by his longtime collaborator Nabil Elderkin (director of Frank's videos for Novacane, Swim Good, and Pyramids), Frank also posted a picture on his Instagram account, the pictures look very sensual but without the try-hard feeling from most R&B stars, cannot wait for the full shoot and HQs to come out.

Get those tissues out because in the next 2 weeks we are in for a ride of our lives when Stephanie passes away. Brad made sure this was the story of the century and a farewell like we have never seen. Some very touching scenes with SF and KKL that will really be heart wrenching especially when we find out about the special gift Stephanie leaves Brooke. With Ridge coming back soon we'll see some serious tension between Ridge and Brook at Forrester Creations. Let's just say there are going to be some very VERY unhappy fans when the truth is revealed and Brooke has a bit of an ace in her pocket at Forresters.

We thought it was over but Brad keeps insisting that the Hope/Liam/Steffy makes for good story especially with the new guy coming on for Kimberly Matula. So once again we're going to be subject to a nasty little twist in the terrible triangle.

As we've said for weeks, there IS a new Ridge picked out, YES, there have been some screen tests both with Hunter Tylo and Katherine Lang and YES, we'll see him soon. The thing is, Bridge is dead. Bridge will remain dead. But will Tridge?

Bill and Katie have a happy reunion when she returns home but that doesn't last long after she finds out what went down with Bill and Brooke. But that shouldn't last too long hopefully because Brad is bringing in a new guy for Brooke, no surprise there!

Looks like it's Christine and Paul all over again when Christine shows Paul a video of his son. Paul is filled with guilt but not to worry Christine shows her sympathy to Paul and they hug which ends in a kiss, and who accidentally sees this? Nina of course. It's the end of Paul and Nina when she packs her bags and tells Paul they are over. Michael informs Paul that charges have been dropped. Paul tells Christine that he wants to try and give their relationship another chance.

Chelsea has reached her limit with Adam helping Sharon and we will soon see what Chelsea is really made of. I am hearing the dark side of this girl will be coming out. Adam better be a bit more careful when it comes to getting Chelsea angry.

With the holidays coming airing schedules are Wednesday Phyllis and Jack share a close moment on Thanksgiving. Thursday is all about parades and football, Friday, will air an encore of the classic episode that features Victor and Nikki’s wedding, no surprise there...LOL

Patrika Darbo (ex-Nancy) is on her way back to Salem.

After confessing to everything she has done, Eric insists that Nicole apologize to Jennifer and she does.

Because of the ongoing NHL strike, NBC will air a classic Days episode on Friday, November 23. Who's ready to relive John and Susan's wedding, when Susan's teeth go flying and land in Vivian's drink?

Marlena erases Kristen's messages for John and because of that, neither John or Marlena don't learn until later on that Brady has been hospitalized. He was injured while rescuing Kristen from a mugging. Marlena is still not so quick to trust Kristen and as it turns out, she has every reason not to trust her.

Rafe is not happy when he learns that EJ is now Sami's boss.

Nick learns that Will is the father of Gabi's baby.

Bo and Caroline return to Salem but Eric wonders if Caroline is as well as she wants everyone to believe.

I have it on good authority that Maurice Benard's negotiations are going well. Expect an announcement that he has re-signed shortly.

When Robin "died" it sent shock waves through Port Charles. But not to fear Kimberly will back be for a limited return. Frank is a wizard with pre-taping and working around outside commitments and convinced Kimberly to return.

Faison showed no interested in ruining the Spencers that was Helena's agenda and she enlisted Faison's aid. Helena's hatred for Laura has not diminished one bit. You will soon learn different villains have different agendas even though it may look like they are working together. These are unrelated arcs that will eventually collide into a bigger umbrella story. Ron is not done complicating this story and boggling our minds. The focus will be on old enemies as we have all ready begun to see with Faison. We will see Faison through the first week of December at least and that's when Anna finds out he is not Duke and that Duke is alive and Faison has been playing her this whole time.

Lynn Herring returns as Lucy Coe. With her return Sabrina who has organized the Nurse's Ball will be in for some changes thanks to Lucy. I am hearing Lucy also wants to get her business back but she is in for a fight from a surprising source.

I am hearing 3 children of Port Charles are returning but only two have been seen on GH before.

What if Helena owned Shadybrooke and perhaps other mental institutions?

Kelly Clarkson has, at times, straddled the line between pop and country in her music. So when she says that Christina Aguilera's Nashville-tinged Lotus ballad, "Just A Fool," is a pretty impressive duet between her and her "Voice" co-mentor Blake Shelton, she probably knows what she's talking about.

The track is a big, sweeping slow jam that features Aguilera's vocals soaring over the amped-up production as her and Shelton's call and response details their respective heartbreaks. Fans, like Clarkson, have since been treated to an early listen to the song, ahead of the album's November 13 release date. And, if you haven't given it a spin yet, Clarkson advises you do so.

"Well my manager told me that, he's like 'Hey you, [Blake] did a duet with Christina?'" she shared with MTV News about how she was introduced the song, and later tweeted some praise for it. "I love both of them. I was just curious how both of them would sound together."

And, when she heard it she couldn't believe how well Aguilera's big voice complements Shelton's twang.

"And he played it for me and it was really awesome. I cannot wait for everybody to hear it. I guess you just don't think they're two such different voices like, or distinguishable voices, they're just like very different. And then, but it came together nicely. They both blended together really well. It was awesome. It's really good."

Fans have less than a week until they can hear the entire album, but "The Voice" judge has been getting music lovers pumped up for it, dropping a number of the tracks ahead of schedule, including another moving ballad, titled "Blank Page."

Like many young girls, Catrina Best thinks Harry Styles is the perfect man. But unlike his many teenage fans, Catrina doesn't want to be with the One Direction star - she wants to look like him.

The 20-year-old, who has been diagnosed as transgender, has modelled her hair and spent thousands on clothing so she can look just like the pop singer.

'Dressing as Harry made me feel confident, so I copied his hair too,' Catrina told this week's Closer magazine. 'I spend 30 minutes every day perfecting the "Harry look."'

Catrina told the magazine she thinks Harry, 18, is the 'perfect boy' and having him as a role model has made it easier as she has struggled with her sexuality.

The law student, who was born in Northern Ireland, said she has felt different since the age of five when she hated looking at all feminine by having long hair or wearing dresses.

When she was 11 she moved to Lisbon, Portugal, with her parents and found she continued to struggle with her identity as a teenager. She often felt depressed and confused because she didn't fancy boys and was bullied because she made herself look different by binding her breasts and having short hair.

'I later realised I wanted to be with girls – but as the male in a straight relationship,' she said of her confusion over her sexual preference.

Catrina said it was a 'huge relief' to finally be diagnosed as transgender earlier this year.

She is now saving up to have an operation and plans to take hormones which will give her facial hair and deepen her voice.

In the meantime, she is modelling her look on Harry having been a fan of One Direction since they appeared on The X Factor.

As well as copying his clothes and hair, she's also learning to play the guitar. Her new image is so uncanny she has often been mistaken for the singer.

She said: 'People say my bone structure, eyes and lips are almost identical to Harry's, and I’ve been asked for autographs. I haven't started dating yet, but girls flirt with me and I even get chatted up by older women, like Harry does!'sourceWasn't sure if I should post this or not but he's talking about it to a magazine so whatever.

The official website for the Evangelion films began streaming a new commercial for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban Q) on Saturday. The new ad features"Sakura Nagashi," the ending theme song that singer Hikaru Utada contributed for the film.

The third film in Hideaki Anno and Khara's four-part remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series opened on Saturday.

The theatrical pamphlet for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban Q), the third film in Hideaki Anno and Khara's four-part remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion series, revealed the title for the next film on Saturday. The fourth and final film is titled Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban 𝄇 (シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版𝄇). The symbol at the end of the title is used in music to denote repetition after reaching the end of a measure.

The first three films' Japanese subtitles are the names for the three classical movements (Jo-Ha-Kyū or Introduction-Exposition-Climax) of traditional Japanese music such as gagaku and Noh.

The final film is slated to open in theaters next year. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo opened in Japanese theaters on Saturday.

It appears there is peace at the American Idol judges' table - but will it last?

Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson caught up with Nicki Minaj at the American Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles where she weighed in on the headline-making reality TV feud with fellow new judge Mariah Carey.

“Blackwood” is from Lionsgate Television and Grammer’s Grammnet Prods. The program is based on a young adult book of that name by Gwenda Bond. “Blackwood” was published on the Strange Chemistry YA imprint of Angry Robot Books, a United Kingdom-based science fiction publisher.

Peter Calloway (“Brothers & Sisters”), a DC Comic book and television writer will pen the adaptation.

The story focuses on Miranda Blackwood, a 19-year-old who, after 114 people that include her father disappear off Roanoke Island, starts investigating. She teams with her high school sweetheart, but discovers she is at the center of the mystery, and also the disappearance of 114 people in America’s early days at The Lost Colony.

Grammer is best known for playing Dr. Frasier Crane on the TV shows “Cheers” and “Frasier.” He wil also appear in the upcoming film “Reach Me” alongside Kyra Sedgwick.

MTV may have been inspired by the success of its program “Teen Wolf.”

Calloway will exec produce along with Grammer, Stella Bulochnikov and Brian Sher from Grammnet. Brian Taylor, vice president of Gramnet, found the manuscript and got the rights for Grammnet and Lionsgate TV.

On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds may be the only hope of bringing them back.

Miranda, a misfit girl from the island’s most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one thing they can’t dodge is each other.